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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on the action needed to accelerate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Research highlights the importance of local knowledge, and the power of grassroots organisations and local governments, in creating positive action towards the goals.

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Peru’s Belen Valley is a landscape largely uninhabited by humans, but home to hummingbirds, the spectacled bear and more than 50 species native to the area (Photo: Leendeleo via Flickr)

Have your say: Enabling forest landscapes to score Sustainable Development Goals

Event on 16 December 2014

The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

The IPCC and an urbanising planet

Insight, 06 November 2014

Lushoto, Tanzania: Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into agroforestry. Here a tree nursery group discusses the challenges and opportunities (Photo: P Kimeli/CCAFS)

Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'

Insight, 04 November 2014

Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)

Ebola – what must we learn?

Insight, 30 October 2014

IIED director Camilla Toulmin gave a lecture at the University of Sussex on 23 October (Photo: Chatham House)

Toulmin lecture: How can the Least Developed Countries be heard?

Event on 23 October 2014

A host of government leaders made pledges at the 2015 UN Climate Summit hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (Photos: Saleemul Huq/IIED)

A week that may change the world

Insight, 25 September 2014

Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)

Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals

Article, 19 September 2014

Drought affects Xinjiang Province, a consequence of climate change (Photo: Simon Lim)

Well-financed climate change action must be central to the post-2015 goals

Insight, 04 September 2014

A tanker delivers water to residents in Retiro, a shanty town in Buenos Aires (Photo: Mark Edwards)

Urban water and sanitation

Active Project

Poultry farming is part of the sustainable agriculture system, along with crop production and fisheries, at Songhai Centre, in Porto Novo, Benin (Photo: Mark Surman via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity

Insight, 25 July 2014

Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

The Musketeers of development

Insight, 16 July 2014

Street scene, Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Fareena Chanda

Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?

Insight, 09 July 2014

Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals

OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical

Insight, 20 June 2014

People need at least US$50 to survive for a month in Hanoi. This is twice the official urban poverty line (Photo via Commons Wikimedia/Google licence)

If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count

Insight, 12 June 2014

Two forest farmers from Ghana, including the head of a local community forest group, alongside some cocoa beans (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework

Archived Project

Participants in the gender and environmental change workshop discuss REDD+ (Photo: Lucile Robinson/IIED)

Making gender equality a global and local reality

Insight, 21 May 2014

Residents of an informal settlement in Pune, India, discuss the results of a survey and how best to upgrade their homes and settlement, guided by Mahila Milan, a grassroots network formed by savings groups of women slum and pavement dwellers (Photo: SPARC)

Wanted: Urban data revolution for post 2015 sustainable development goals

Insight, 16 April 2014

In the absence of electricity, students in Bangladesh are given charger lights so they can study at home (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)

Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet

Insight, 25 March 2014

Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)

Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience

Insight, 17 March 2014

A dilapidated road is repaired in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India (Photo: Rikynti Marwein via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Transforming growth for least developed countries

Insight, 10 March 2014

Rosebell Kagumire was among the delegates at the conference discussing the post-2015 development framework: priorities for the least developed countries, in late January (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda

Insight, 04 February 2014

The post-2015 development agenda must recognise that the fates of forests and people are entwined. Credit: Duncan Macqueen

Saving the forests for last – in the hope, at last, of saving the forests

Insight, 31 January 2014

Wilton Park is the venue for a conference on sustainable development goals from January 29-31 (Photo: Wilton Park)

Post-2015 development framework: priorities for LDCs – coverage from Wilton Park

Event on 29 January 2015

Fish for sale in a Sri Lankan market. Credit: Dhammika Heenpella (Flickr / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Ten ways to ensure there are plenty more fish in the sea

Insight, 28 January 2014

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